The Network Director is a key part of the Program Directors team - with the Executive Director, Director of Communications and Research, and the Federal Policy Director - which lead Coming Clean’s Programs Department. The Network Director plays an important role in the leadership of the organization, helping to lead the organization and guide programmatic strategy. The Network Director also oversees the work of Coming Clean’s contracted leadership, teams, initiatives, and campaigns as well as provides oversight for the whole of the Coming Clean Network. The Network Director organizes and manages the network, onboarding new members, tracking membership data, and facilitates collaborative membership spaces.

RiSE4EJ and Coming Clean partnered to tell an inspiring story of community organizing in Kansas City. "One Less Polluter in Armourdale" is a success story about community members standing up to the private-equity-backed Reworld (better known as Covanta) and fighting until the company withdrew its application to operate a new waste processing facility in a neighborhood already overburdened by pollution. 

Chemical accidents killed 48 people in 2025—almost double 2024’s toll—and seriously injured 142, according to a new analysis by the Wall St. Journal of data submitted to the Chemical Safety Board. The Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters, which tracks news reports of chemical incidents, counts about twice as many as the CSB between 2021 and 2025, since the CSB doesn’t require reporting of accidents that resulted in just shelter-in-place or evacuation orders, for instance.

This summer, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it was expanding its list of “alternative test methods” that could be used to assess the health risks of chemicals, including pesticides, that end up in our air, water and food. Without frameworks in place to prevent backsliding, this  will result in weaker health protections from harmful chemicals. Scientists within the Coming Clean network, allied with environmental health professionals and farmworker groups, have been sounding alarm bells about the irresponsible use of NAMs for many years. Now, scientists across our organizations must form a united front against expanded use of NAMs to replace proven science, before more regulatory protections disappear.

“Today’s Supreme Court decision is more proof that pesticide corporations have too much influence in government. Bayer made over 11 billion dollars from pesticide sales in 2023, and last year alone, spent over 9 million dollars on lobbying for policies that protect pesticide profits instead of basic human health. If you use a product that fails to warn about its ingredients' documented links to cancer, reproductive harm, or neurological conditions, and you develop health complications after using that product, you deserve your day in court. Especially since EPA has approved hundreds of pesticide active ingredients that likely or possibly cause cancer. Congress has the power to protect consumers’ right to sue over pesticide harms. The people have had enough of agrochemical corporate influence in Washington.”